That pickup is both good news and bad news for Nokia. On the one hand, it brings attention to the Windows Phone platform, and by proxy Nokia's efforts. On the other hand, it means that Nokia needs to step up its game because Samsung looks to be getting serious about Windows Phone. Nokia and Samsung are already trading jabs on Twitter.

Well, personally I prefer the "american" version of how the date is ordered. Although it would be better if the year was 1st instead as follows; YY:MM:DD. YY is to the right for US and YY:MM:DD is just reversed for others.

YY:MM:DD is a better format (closer to US ver.) due to the technological age we are in now. On the computer that uses any filing system (ie all), its best to put the least changing digit first ie the year, then month, then day. It makes the filing format more linear and organized even by default (by name). Its metadata at its most simplest form.

It just makes more sense to me in this day n age and it applies well to how current technological systems are filed.

TL;DR : US has it 2/3 correct, and the rest of you guys have it backwards in todays age.

The day should always be first. America has it just stupid. The actual day is the most critical part of a "date."

Generally people already know what month and year it is when, for example, buying a newspaper, looking up movie times or a train schedule, or even writing a check. How many times have you been to the bank and looked around for the day only to read the month first where it was posted. Chances are you already knew the month.

It's just basic efficiency. This is why the rest of the known universe (outside of the United States) uses the metric system, as well. Don't even get me started on 220v electricity and why it's superior (hint: efficiency)

Great, as long as it's being used in countries with similar abbreviations for the months (and let's not even get into whether they use the Latin alphabet). A lot of paperwork in the U.S. Army calls for that format, because there is no way to misread it.

Commercials like this rate quite high. I don't know who started this trend in marketing, but that commercial is just another in a long line of fail that gets my blood pressure up.

1. Shitty music comprised of minimalist guitar strumming or other annoying themes that take nearly zero talent to produce.

2. The "edgy" theme of the add having ZERO relation to the product whatsoever, with no reference to what the product being eluded to is, with simply a "wait and see" approach. A girl on a bike looking happy! Clearly this is some sort of bizarre psychic trigger to get me to buy Windows Phone? No! It's a fucking waste of airtime that does nothing to advance a product! We're too busy to remember dates. We want instant gratification and information on the fly! This is NOT generating anticipation you goddamn morons.

Thank Odin for Netflix and file sharing. If I actually had to watch commercials my head would explode.

In the countries with the most bicyclists nobody wears helmets so what makes you right? Do you wear a helmet when you go running?

I cycle to work every day and I don't wear a helmet but it's 100x more likely the idiots going the wrong way down a one way street or riding in the night without any lights are going to be killed long before I do.

Wasn't anything wrong with Kin except the data plans Verizon tried to force with it. The better deal was to just get a smartphone. No fault to the Kin it had a high satisfaction rate but Verizon messed up the deal.

Apple - do everything our way and we get 30% of everything you spend and get to veto apps.MS W8RT - do everything our way and we get 20-30% of everything you spend and get to veto apps.Google - buy whatever device you want from whoever wants to make it. Use our marketplace or don't, heck, feel free to bypass markets all together and sideload.

This pretty much sums it up in my book. I don't plan on getting anything but droid (unless stupid court decisions make it too difficult). I will, however have no problems having others get competitors that hold their hand for them. My wife has pretty much said she will not use anything be an iphone cause she likes not having choices.

I bought a Lumia 900 on the recommendation of a friend; needed a phone immediately, didn't comparison shop like I normally do, bought it and ran.

Holy cow, what a disappointment, coming from android.

First of all, MS can say there's 80k apps or whatever now all they want. Half are in another language (no obvious option to filter out the apps from japan and china), and the other half are porn or a thousand different flashlight apps. Even worse, all the pathetic attempts to rip off popular Android and iOS apps/games.

And the rare unique, useful app, how the hell am I supposed to find it? No way to sort apps the come up in different categories, and at least Android by default sorts them by popularity it seems. Not sure how exactly WP ranks them, I can't discern any logical pattern.

I kinda like the interface; it's simple and functional, doesn't let me go too crazy. But the app situation is so crippling that the interface could be pure gold and the overall experience would still be a let down.

Oh, and no ability for app developers to hook in to some API and monitor bandwidth usage; have to log in to my account to get their "estimate" of my usage to date. Kind of a pain, and a possible recipe for data overages.

At least the camera seems good, and the phone functions as a phone very, very well. Good integration with what I use for calendars and keeping my life together too. Oh, and Astronomy Hub is a nice app. But thats it.

If I hadn't been busy doing other things, I'd of paid the restocking fee. As it is, I might try to dump it early and go back to android. But I'd stay away until the store is revamped and more and better developers support the phone, and WP8 won't really fix any of that by itself. There's really just no comparison, none at all, to the app collection amassed by android or iOS.

Sorry for the rant, but if it saves one person from considering and being disappointed in WP, then mission accomplished. And, like I said, it does what it does very well, so maybe if all the extra apps aren't important to you then thats fine.

While WP7's app collection was a little lacking, aren't apps between Windows 8, Windows RT and Windows Phone 8 supposed to be compatible between versions ? If so, watch the number of apps in WP8 skyrocket even past apple's in less than a year.

I agree about the app ranking though. Even in the Windows 8 RC, the few apps they have in there are painfull to browse through. They need to fix that ASAP. But to be fair, I can't ever find apps in either Platform without searching for it and that's what I miss the most in Windows 8. Where do we search for apps in the store by name ??? That's the only part I find is bad design on it.

They only impress if the roll-out a handset to match GS III, one to match the G Note II , a 7 inch tablet to match Nexus 7 and a 10 inch tablet like MS Surface RT.

The last one is easiest to do but the first 3 devices, well ?. Nokia really do not need to worry about Apple because their old customers have already moved there some time ago and are not about to leave .....

Samsung just partnered with Microsofthttp://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/tech/2012/08/...The world’s biggest smartphone maker is in talks with major telecom carriers on Apple’s home-turf such as Verizon Wireless about modified designs in Samsung Galaxy devices. It is also closely partnering with Microsoft (MS) to cut its dependency on Google Android , according to officials Wednesday.